The Honor 10 which was recently launched in India at Rs 32,999 is now selling for as low as Rs 29,999 on Flipkart.

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Saurabh Singh

New Delhi

August 11, 2018

UPDATED: August 11, 2018 17:49 IST

The Honor 10 which was recently launched in India at Rs 32,999 is now selling for as low as Rs 29,999 on Flipkart. The flat Rs 3,000 discount on the Honor 10 is part of Flipkart's Big Freedom Sale promotional event that the online retail website is hosting from August 10-August 12. There are a few other offers on the Honor 10, for instance, a 10 per cent cashback for Citi credit card users, no-cost EMI and up to Rs 17,950 off on exchange, should you be interested.

The Honor 10 is an absolute steal at Rs 29,999. It is the most beautiful phone that you can buy south of Rs 35,000. Design isn't the only area where the Honor 10 shines though. The Honor 10, which is essentially a souped up Honor View 10, takes major cues from Huawei's top-tier P20 and P20 Pro, bringing top-tier design and hardware to the masses. Here are 8 reasons why you should buy the Honor 10.

1. Good looks, top-notch build quality: The Honor 10 is carved out of glass and metal. Honor says that it using 15 layers of 3D glass panels to create an aurora-like effect, which is a little different from the plain reflective (mirror-like) blue and black versions of the Huawei P20 and P20 Pro. There are two positives to Honor's take on the all-glass phone: the Honor 10 doesn't get scratched as easily as the more expensive P20 Pro, and also, it's a lot less out-there in dealing with smudge and fingerprints. It does accumulate them by the millisecond, but, because of the way that it reflects light, you're more likely to not notice them. It's as if they disappear in plain sight. And when you do notice them, unlike other glass phones, this one requires just a gentle wipe, and it's all brand new in a jiffy. That's especially true about the blue variant.

Moreover, the Honor 10 has very manageable proportions (153 gram, 7.7mm) and the whole thing feels solid and re-assuring to hold.

2. Big, beautiful screen in a compact form factor: On the front, the Honor 10 comes with a notch up top and a chin at the bottom. The setup entails in a phone that can boast of a screen-to-body ratio of an upwards of 86 per cent. The 5.84-inch Full-HD+ IPS LCD screen (19:9 aspect ratio) of the Honor 10 looks really good, with good viewing angles and punchy colours. It can get very bright too.

3. Powerful hardware: The Honor 10 is powered by Huawei's top-of-the-line Kirin 970 processor. The Kirin 970 is a 64-bit octa-core chip based on a 10nm fabrication process which features four Cortex-A73 big cores operating at up to 2.36 GHz along with four Cortex-A53 little cores operating at up to 1.8 GHz. The chip has its own dedicated Neural Processing Unit or NPU for crunching machine learning algorithms for tasks like image recognition.

4. Lots of RAM, lots of storage: The Honor 10 ships with 6GB RAM and 128GB storage which is non-expandable.

5. Capable dual rear cameras with AI smarts: The Honor 10 has a dual camera system on the rear consisting of one 16-megapixel colour or RGB sensor and another 24-megapixel monochrome sensor. Both have an aperture of f/1.8 and also there's PDAF for fast focusing and LED flash. The two cameras work in the same fashion as other dual camera Honor phones. While one sensor takes colour shots, the other takes the same shot in black and white. The phone's software algorithm then merges both the images into one and creates the final photo. The monochrome images can take in more light and more contrast than coloured photos. So basically, the phone can ideally take better low-light photos than rival top-tier phones thanks to its dual-lens system, if the company is to be gone by.

The dual camera system on-board the Honor 10 can also take portrait shots or photos with shallow depth of field. This dual camera system also supports 2X optical zoom.

The Honor 10's cameras can also identify 22 real-time objects and 500+ scenes, and then accordingly, it can select modes and settings to deliver supposedly better results. The Honor 10, as a result, can make your greenery look greener, blue sky look bluer, text look sharper, so on and so forth.

6. 24MP front camera: On the front, the Honor 10 comes with a whopping 24-megapixel camera that can shoot pretty well-detailed selfies and also there's beautification -- lots of it, in fact -- if you're looking to hide them/soften them out as well. The Honor 10 can take portrait selfies, and also comes with a portrait lighting feature like the one inside the iPhone X.

7. Good battery life: The 3,400mAh battery inside the Honor 10 holds, and it holds well. Most users with generalised usage patterns will be able to get at least one day of battery life (sometimes more if you're not in the habit of playing too many games) out of the Honor 10. The phone supports fast charging and ships with a certified fast charger in the box.

8. Ultrasonic fingerprint scanner: The Honor 10 uses Qualcomm's ultrasonic fingerprint sensor for biometric authentication. Qualcomm's ultrasonic solution allows OEMs to implement a fingerprint sensor under display, glass, or metal. These sensors can also work when wet or greasy, unlike the more conservative sensors seen in phones today. In layman's terms, the Honor 10, does not have a physical home button. It has a dedicated area at the bottom that functions as a fingerprint scanner and it works quite well.

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